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The 50 Fattest Nations
On the day after celebrating its independence and with likely half the nation suffering from over-consumption, we thought it appropriate to 'celebrate' another #winning rank by the US. At an average of 181.27lbs (gender-weighted!), Bloomberg finds that the US is the 'heaviest' nation on earth.
Bloomberg ranked countries based on the weight of an average adult, which is the gender ratio-weighted aggregate of male and female adults.
Methodology
Weights were calculated by adapting the standard BMI formula: BMI = (weight in pounds / (height in inches x height in inches)) x 703. BMI is an index of weight-to-height used to classify underweight, overweight and obese adults. Average adult BMI data were collected from the World Health Organization.
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I use to eat Wendy's and thought it was good in it's class, but now it me makes sick everytime. It's the buns, the wheat, and HFCs they are using. That is the missing piece for me, the wheat. The girl at work quit wheat cold turkey, and she transformed from average to hot. I put it all on HFC's and now I think I'm wrongl. It's the whole enchilada, GM wheat, GM corn, herbicides, pesticides, HFC, artificial flavor/color, 20 syllable chemicals, hormones, and all these soy derivaties. Welcome to the modern World's scientific experiment in food, and you are invited as the King's food tester.
Reading all these comments has made me hungry. I'm off to Wendys
Ingestion of GMOs cause inflammation in the stomache and intestants.
The mono culture of GMOs and processing (processed food) actually made nutriënt deficiënt food.
So the body reacts by creating more hunger stimuli.
The black swan that's being missed by most americans. you're eating poison (mostly modified corn syrup).
http://fstoppers.com/what-a-week-of-groceries-looks-like-around-the-world
GMOs aren't any more "monoculture" than the crop strains bred by traditional means. You think Red Delicious apples are biologically diverse? Think again. It's ludditism like this that's starving half the world... "golden rice" for example is a GMO that's far, far nutritionally superior to traditional rice, but enviro-whackos are browbeating third-world govts into banning it.
I'm luvin' this® , hang on I have to take a 10 pound dump, then cut it up with a knife so I can flush it
Let's just say I've never met a fat genius.
"No it ain't fat, just water retention/soft muscle/cancer/midget living in my ass"
I marvel at the number of fat doctors, being dumfounded that anyone would consider their opinions credible.
Then again, I quit going to them altogether, as I got tired of having to argue with them over what my symptoms were, let alone any diagnosis.
Probably because "geniuses" tend to be remembered for their younger years. Einstein and Newton got pretty pudgy as time went on.
Aquinas was reputedly very tubby. Also Chesterton.
It's interesting looking at the BMI by country and gender on Wikipedia. Some of the differences are interesting. BMIs for men tend to be higher than for women, but for example, in Croatia the average male BMI is a whopping 7.21 higher than the average female BMI; Saudia Arabia, 3.55 higher; while in Jamaica the average male BMI is 1.88 less than the female BMI.
Also, the US is 10th in female BMI, 6th in male BMI, yet winds up 5th in overall BMI (presumably because of the gender disparities in some countries).
That is full on pron statistic sir. It would make sense that woman are predisposed to intuitively understand food nutrition better than men, and choose a healthier diet. But what rational would they used to discern which foods are better than others?
That is full on pron statistic sir. It would make sense that woman are predisposed to intuitively understand food nutrition better than men, and choose a healthier diet. But what rational would they used to discern which foods are better than others?
I believe the weight gain is tied to the widespread accidental release of the GMO wheat as found in Oregon.
Probably all the US wheat supply and likely much of the Europe supply has been contaminated.
Monsanto would never have abandoned trials if the wheat hadn't escaped - an "oh shit" moment on Monsanto's part.
These GMO varieties are likely at least partially responsible for the unbelievable rise rise in celiac disease with incidence rates that track to the GMO trials.
There are many world wide cultivars of wheat that are still clean.
We need to eradicate the GMO strains in the system with prejudice.
You fail biology forever...
I understand the difference between selective breeding and GMO modification.
What in the hell is any GMO wheat doing in the wild.
Make a biological point - lets argue this.
Lets start with the types of Gliadins and go from there.
"I understand the difference between selective breeding and GMO modification."
I don't think you do -- and referring to wheat produced by centuries of human intervention as "wild" isn't enhancing your agricultural cred any.
Any modification that occurs in selective breeding can occur with fast GMO, and vice versa. The difference is the timescale and precision with which it occurs. Do you dispute this fact?
Yes I do in entirity.
GMO uses a bacteria (in the case of wheat, corn and soy) to carry genetic material into the target organism.
Selective breeding is just that, a natural process.
An organism (not naturally occuring) such as GMO wheat in trials that escapes has gone "wild".
Farmers choosing which seeds to sow in their fields is not a natural process. Whether the genetic material in a seed was constructed by a previous wheat plant, or by a bacterium, or by Santa Claus is irrelevant.
Seed selection is the most natural of process - like survival of the fittest.
Have you ever grown anything?
Farmers always choose which seeds to plant in their fields,
GMO modification is the only relevant point.
GMO in corn and beans is for resistance to specific herbicides or BT for fall armyworms of whatever.
Nature had absolutely nothing to do with GMO.
Carinpa wins.
The rise in Celiac disease has nothing to do with what you alledge. Celiac is a genetic allergy to gluten. You are either born with it. or not. I know because my wife and daugher have it, and her mother had it, and her grandmother before that. The problem is that is has been notoriously un-diagnosed in the USA compared to say Northern Europe where it has been routinely screened for years. In fact Italy screen all children for it in grade school after WWII. All that is required is a simple blood test to check for it. But you must be ingesting gluten for the test to come back positive. The fact is that about 1-2% of the population has Celiac disease (gluten allergy). In our families case, my wife's mother and grandmother were never diagnosed, but we are convinced they had the allergy and it caused huge problems for them late in life. For my wife and daughter, they won't diagnosed until about 10 years ago. My wife has had lots of medical complications because of the mis-diagnosage for all these years. My daughter.. not so much.
The problem with the allergy is the body sends out anti-bodies that destroy your small intestine. Long term no one can live without a small intestine since that is where all your food nutrition is absorbed by the body. The longer you go undiagnosed and not on a gluten free diet, the worse you become. A hundred years ago, a common diagnosis was "wasting disease" because they didn't know what it was.
It's rise in the USA over the last 5-10 years is because patients were able to find information on the internet from other countries that have diagnosed the problem for years. US doctors never kept up on the research because it was foreign, plus Celiacs can't be cured with a pill so there is no drug company pushing a solution to the US doctors. The fact that Celiac disease is much more mainstream now is because patients have educated themselves, food companies, and the medical profession... not the other way around. I don't know about GMO wheat, but I do know that it is not responsible for Celiac disease. Celiac disease is an inherited genetic allergy. It is not caused by ingesting gluten, you are either born with it, or you are not. You will get just as sick on rye, barely and other gluten grains as you do wheat, and therefore sick on GMO or non-GMO wheat.
I agree ith you entirely that diagnosis has improved dramatically over the past decade or so.
All gluten in relationship to celiac disease is not equal however. There are a number of different gliadin proteins, allergic response has been shown to be linked to at least one (beta) and elevated levels of the beta protein in wheat.
How do you know GMO wheat is not contributing to celiac disease through elevated beta protein levels or other mechanism?
These GMO trials occurred beginning around 2001 which coincides with reported increase in celiac prevelance.
Chicken or egg? Which came first increased occurance or improved testing.
I am just making the point that we don't know, and it should be examined. I suspect more than a casual linkage.
The following is an example of medicine gone terribly wrong.
How many women died of breast cancer due to hormone replacement therapy? I checked, 43% reduction in breast cancer occurance following decrease in hormone relplacement therapy.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21080050
AbstractThe striking decline in United States breast cancer incidence since 2002 has been widely attributed to a reduction in postmenopausal hormone use, yet very little analysis has been conducted to quantify the contribution of changes in hormone use to the declining trend. We used literature-based estimates of the relative risk and the changing prevalence of hormone use to estimate the impact of hormone use on the decline in breast cancer incidence between 2002 and 2003 among women aged 40-79. For the base case of a 44% decline in hormone use and a relative risk for current use of 1.5, we estimated that 43% of the decline in incidence was attributable to hormone use. By exploring a range of parameter values, we found that high, unlikely values of the relative risk (i.e., ? 2.25) and/or the percent decline in hormone use (i.e., ? 75%) would be required to account for 100% of the observed decline in breast cancer incidence. We conclude that hormone use is unlikely to account for more than half of the observed decline in breast cancer incidence between 2002 and 2003. Further efforts are needed to quantify the potential contributions of other factors, such as the plateau in screening mammography utilization.
Peace
The following is very interesting regarding wheat varieties, celiac disease and probably weight gain linkages.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20664999?dopt=Abstract
Presence of celiac disease epitopes in modern and old hexaploid wheat varieties: wheat breeding may have contributed to increased prevalence of celiac disease.
AbstractGluten proteins from wheat can induce celiac disease (CD) in genetically susceptible individuals. Specific gluten peptides can be presented by antigen presenting cells to gluten-sensitive T-cell lymphocytes leading to CD. During the last decades, a significant increase has been observed in the prevalence of CD. This may partly be attributed to an increase in awareness and to improved diagnostic techniques, but increased wheat and gluten consumption is also considered a major cause. To analyze whether wheat breeding contributed to the increase of the prevalence of CD, we have compared the genetic diversity of gluten proteins for the presence of two CD epitopes (Glia-?9 and Glia-?20) in 36 modern European wheat varieties and in 50 landraces representing the wheat varieties grown up to around a century ago. Glia-?9 is a major (immunodominant) epitope that is recognized by the majority of CD patients. The minor Glia-?20 was included as a technical reference. Overall, the presence of the Glia-?9 epitope was higher in the modern varieties, whereas the presence of the Glia-?20 epitope was lower, as compared to the landraces. This suggests that modern wheat breeding practices may have led to an increased exposure to CD epitopes. On the other hand, some modern varieties and landraces have been identified that have relatively low contents of both epitopes. Such selected lines may serve as a start to breed wheat for the introduction of 'low CD toxic' as a new breeding trait. Large-scale culture and consumption of such varieties would considerably aid in decreasing the prevalence of CD.
Ukraine not weak!!! Ukraine healtzy!!!
I have been lucky to never develop the habit of eating, or seeing it as some kind of soother to do when bored. By habit, I mean, set times, and set types of meals at those times. It was accidental. Life has been wierd and sketchy most of the time. Food to me is fuel. I eat it when the tank is low. That's the way it should be. But we start screwing up that fuel tank indicator very early on in a stable "normal" life. Wake up and eat. Why? It is said we need to prepare for the days work. But some experiments have shown that to be false. And I think the basic functioning of the digestive system shows it to be false as well. Breakfast takes time to digest. You had supper and relaxed, then splept the night before. Your tank was topped up and you didn't burn much fuel. Then you stuffed some more in before you even started burning in the morning. If you spend the morning mostly sitting, then you are overloaded with fuel and it aint burning off. If you are working and burning calories at a good rate during the day, then maybe you can have a little top off at lunch. But not much if lunch is at noon. Better to take lunch much later in the afterneoon. And make it a real meal. The main meal. At home that evening, just have a light snack.
This is the scheme of people in many countries that stay lighter than us. It fits the digestion timing, the use of the fuel. Wake up and be a little hungry when you go to work. Work, burn. Mid afternoon have a good full meal. You get the energy from the sugars in the food fast. Work some more, being active while that meal starts digesting. When you get home, relax. Now that food is getting into the system and repairing, regrowing. Have a little tasty snack. Go to bed.
I have worked in various countries. This is a common eating pattern. Mid afternoon meal is the main one. That Continental Breakfast, of a bun and a drink of something isn't just a cheap blurb for hotels. That is why "lunch break" is so long in many places. It's a big deal for eating and socializing. It also makes for a lot of nicely mellow folks finishing off their work day. In Austria I saw signs in all the businesses in the afternoon that said back in 2 hours. That's fucking civilization folks. Come back later and deal with, slim, happy people. With a couple glasses of wine in them to boot.
Americans didn't take 2 hour lunch breaks 100 years ago, yet obesity is a relatively new phenom.
There's actually some theories that say you should eat many small snacks throughout the day to stay healthy, because that matches what our primate relatives (and presumably early humans) do -- it keeps the body constantly producing and consuming fat, wasting more energy than processing three calorie dumps a day does.
Everybody's just guessing with these "gimmicks" because the only sure-fire way to lose weight (expend more energy and eat fewer calories) is so unpleasant and difficult.
Everything is big in the US. Huge houses, waistlines (if you can find it), debt, SUVs and spending.
Most young housholds don't even cut their lawn anymore. The illegals cut their Grass.
So many huge Americans are sitting in nursing homes.
In the mean time those in the US consume and crap out debt.
It's almost so bad, that it's like all of this is part of some big plan.....to fatten up and drive the cattle to ignorance. Fat and ignorant, the last enemy, those thorns in the side of some Great Plan. An independent thorn always gumming up the works of world takeover. If you can't defeat them militarily, how about monetarily, and fatten 'em up, dilute them, stupidify (?) them...Then take em down...
Thankfully that's conspiracy tin foil thinking.
Somebody must really want to take over Tonga and Samoa, then.
This makes no sense at all. Ukraine the skinniest? Impossible. If you have been there you can see all older women are huge. All adult men are also big. No chance they are the lightest on the planet. Mexico near the top of the list is also impossible. Their diet is pure fat. Why is Slovakia near the heaviest? That also makes no sense. The only thing that makes sense here is fat Americans being #1 :)
Americans are obese because their mouths are bigger than their assholes, so they take in more food than they can possibly poop out.
I'll eat to that
Kind of sad seeing ZH go from an essential alternative economics viewpoint to Conspiracy Theory Central. Sheesh.
The AMA determined obesity to be a disease? We should do a study in southern Sudan to see how to cure it.
At least during the last depression Americans produced something instead of just debt, a good good work ethic, had critical thinking and were not Obese like they are today.
We're not fat, we're big-boned
You mean, as in "thick skulls"?
Matches Monsantos GMO distribution map.
Complements of mass genocide from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gave up the wheat (except beer) over a year ago. Despite sitting in a truck driving all day I have gained no extra weight and eliminated high blood pressure (without meds). Wheat kills !
Granted my wonderful wife cooks all meals from scratch using local grass fed beef, pastured chicken, and fresh produce - so that also helps.
Vigourous exercise (high impact cardio for at least 1 hour a day) plus ADHD medication (aka Adderall/Amphetamine Salts or Ritalin) is the key to staying slim. I am 5'6" and around 140LBS and I don't eat really 'that' healthy except for the obvious (never goto McDonalds or other crap fast food, when ordering a salad always say dressing on the side or the thing gets drowned in it, stay away from anything fried or anything high carb (pasta & white potatoes are the worst things to eat). But the Amphetamine (generic of Adderall) has really helped despite these dire warnings that it causes heart attacks or high blood pressure - if I have it, I am sure doctor can prescribe something to get it down
great advice. although i would ask one thing, why not just blow some columbian marching powder to stay thin then? adderall is for pussies.
It seems that we are leaving it to a post about U.S. Americans being the fattest individuals in the world for the comments to include something of a spectrum of gross generalization and/or over-reductivity on the subject of health, only to be followed by self-congratulating and back-slaping to support a sense of existence.
When it comes to health, it seems most of you are lemmings.
The 80/10/10 Diet, bitchez.
I see NZ is 2nd. But this data is weight not fat. Most kiwis lead active lifestyles compared to USA blobs. Let's see a proper study which takes into account bone density and lean mass %'s .
Most of the guys I work with are over 200lbs and are all super fit. These are typical office workers here and do 7 to 15 hours a week of useful exercise.
Of course the women here are another story....Their laziness compared to 2 generations earlier is shocking. Don't ever marry a kiwi girl, your house will never be clean.
Congratulations!
Long power chairs
Looks like Kim Dotcom is skewing the average for New Zealand. :P
High insulin levels tend to store fat.
Low insulin levels tend to mobilize fat.
Sugar-carbs have the greatest nurture impact on insulin levels.
Traditional low-fat diets have a ton of sugar-carbs in them.
It's not the red meat and fats which are killing us on their own. It's the grain flours and other sugar-carbs we eat with them.
Restrict carb intake, or you'll get fat and diabetic.
Then your Diabetes doctor will tell you to restrict your carb intake to get your insulin levels down anyway.
So, you're saying that I can't run with the Wild Bunch if I'm morbidly obese?
A decent streak of Classical Liberalism is always welcome.
If ya run with the Wild Bunch, ya have to understand that everything is changing. And a lot of it makes no sense at all. Whether Thief or Saint, honor amoung men is getting difficult to find. Common sense is more rare than common.
If you are too old to change, then ya have to settle for being somewhat of an anachronism.
Weight means little and going out in some productive honorable glory is all that counts.
I'm the only person in my extended family who is not obese, or at least very much overweight. If you looked at my genetic heritage, you'd think I'd be doomed. My husband joked about it when we started dating; how in future years he'd have to widen the doorways. However, 26 years later, I'm still just the right weight for my height.
Well, for 17 years I was a vegan for ethical reasons; now I am nearly so (I've added fish oil capsules and a tiny amount of cheese).
If you want to be a good weight, going vegan, or nearly vegan, is an option. I know a fair number of other vegans, and not one of them is obese. And we eat a lot of carbs.
An acqaintaince informed me that even after being a veggan for 20 years, he was diagnosed with NASH (fatty liver). I personally attribute that to nonmetabolize-able material that becomes lodged in our livers. Oil or plastic from containers are considerations. HFCS has it's own deadly impact on our bodies. The lack of nutrients and sudden anti vitamin intake I am hearing is all rather alarming.
To think a govt would allow the food supply to maime the citizenry is a Stephen King novel come true. They appear to acknowledge the truth when it is too late. Science experiment or deliberate attempt to weaken the resolve of a nation...which is it. Unbelievalbe. This is what happens when corporations taken over all media outlets available to the masses. I do not know how this left the drawing board. It is madness.
It's because politicians are psychopaths, bunny. They'd rather grub a nickel from a corporate lobbyist, than pass a law that ensures healthful food.
Your acquaintance should read this Science Daily article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423134027.htm. Vitamin E supplementation is worth trying. So is exercise.
I would not claim that being strictly vegan is the most healthful thing (hence the fish oil). It's hard to say what your acquaintance's experience shows; some people (esp. Asians) are genetically primed to get fatty liver, if they are even a tiny bit overweight.
Admittedly, lots of factors determine how thin or fat people are. However, I can give one tip that seems to work for everyone who seriously tried it. This tip was intended to optimize health, not lose weight, but it also caused weight loss for [overweight] folks who tried it.
Only buy food items with one ingredient.
Simple as that. Buy [boneless, skinless] chicken breasts... or whole fresh roast chickens if you prefer. Buy lettuce (choose your favorites). Buy tomatoes, onions, any veggies you like. Buy any fruit you like. Buy milk if you like. Pretty much, buy any food item that has one and only one ingredient.
This theory has a few practical problems, probably the biggest of which is bread. Not many of us want to prepare and make our own bread --- too much work. But at least read labels very carefully and only buy bread made with the minimum number of ingredients, each of which should be an unprocessed recognized basic food item (unbleached whole-grain flour, water, yeast, egg, those sorts of things).
When I was exploring places to move several years ago, once in a while I had travel companions. One time while exploring south america (mostly Chile that trip), it was funny to watch my travel companions eat all they wanted, but lose an astonishing amount of weight, very quickly. They were stunned, but loved every minute and every bite. Clearly the huge long list of bogus artificial ingredients in most food in the USSA (and Australia, NZ, etc) is part of what makes and keeps people fat. This was a stunning demonstration.
I'm really can't figure out why someone downvoted your post, honestann.
I guess someone works in the packaged food industry! Hahaha. Or at least has investments in some of those companies. Go figure.
USA USA!
Since Snowden is slim and likes his women the same way, this is a great Pareto list of countries to apply for asylum.
Bearish for USA.
"They hate us for our freedom..."
...freedom to be fat fcuks... lol!
Nurseing homes are full of non smokers.
Avoid:
Soda pop - either a sugar overdose or aspartame poisoning
Trans-fats - deadly, clogs arteries, body cannot process it
Processed foods - shop from the edges of the store. If it spoils, it's food
GMO - anything
Doctors - cut, burn, drug and poison is all they know
Follow:
Water - filtered if possible
Exercise Peak 8 - peak heart rate for 30 secs then normal for 2 minutes. Repeat 8 times thrice weekly
Quotes
Jack LaLanne: "if man made it, don't eat it"
George Gordan: "all sickness comes from either not enough of what the body needs, or too much of what it doesn't. malnutrition or poisoning"
The problem with diets is they all involve eating.
3500 calories (unburned) = 1 lb of weight gain.
So if you burn an average of 2200 calories a day but eat 2300 you will gain 10 lbs in a year.
Check out:
The China Study by Colin Campbell. Or the DVD documentary summary of it, Forks Over Knives, available on Amazon. You can pick it up used on Marketplace for $10 or so.
The Anti-Cancer Diet by David Servan-Schreiber.
Not fad or food industry propaganda but fact and science.
They left out a few people in that study: no India, China or Japan
I want to see where Samoa and Tonga would be on that graph.
The chart should measure and compare gender-weighted BMI, not lbs.
i ate some maccas recently because a guy i work with loves his fast food.....
jesus.......the bun was so sickly sweet its no wonder kids love it......worst meal ever....
why don't these asshole food critics dine there instead of writing negative reviews of small restaurants who actually do try hard to make a decent meal.......
The obese will use their fat reserves to survive the economic collapse.
No wonder Ukranian ladies make for good export.
No wonder Ukranian ladies make for good export.